Poetry Week Two 2025

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Day 5

After Me

What if they struggle after me?

What if they suddenly can’t see

The world as bright or as sweet? 

What if they can’t avoid deceit

Because I only want them to know love?

Terrors that moms think of

As we prepare angels to live

In a world more take than give

So before you steal or cheat or go wild

Remember each person is a mother’s child 

Day 6

Don’t React

Don’t act, don’t blink, don’t laugh

That ever so nervous laugh 

That can give it all away

Just bite that tongue, nothing to say 

Ugly girls aren’t meant for this

Unwanted interest, this stolen kiss 

Fending off hands that want to roam

Who invited you into my home

Maybe all the ugly isn’t vested in me

Send him away, leave me be

Day 6.5

My hobbit brain wanted another short take, so:

Short

Keep it short, keep it brief 

Keep your sad, keep your grief 

Day 7

Intensity

Will they, won’t they?

The cliff stands near

What will they say?

What will we hear?

Did they, do they?

How did we miss it?

Wait another day

Did he kiss it?

Why her, why him?

It could have been me

But someone’s whim

Forged different intensity

Day 8

Love Lost

It starts as a fire

Sparked in the heart

Sometimes desire

Turns to torn apart 

Love is to blame

For turning two to one

But it becomes bad flame

When it comes undone 

What once united

Now tears asunder 

One once knighted

Is wave pulling under

So how do we hold on

To love and keep it growing 

For if it is gone

We may regret its knowing

Day 9

Inspired

Splashes of paint on canvas

This is art

I am art

Famous in imperfection

Perfected by the eyes

Of the beholder 

Day 10

Numbered

They numbered us and let us go

Watching for what we would sow

But quickly forgot our real name

Being numbered is not the same

As being loved, being known

We know of no love greater shown 

Than one who knows our inner hearts

And never, from us, departs

Day 11

Choose

In the moment, we must choose

Will we win or will we lose 

Who are we now, who to become

Are we a part or the final sum

Do we let abuse or love

Tell us what we hope of

Do we seek deep inside our soul

And find there a deeper role 

Some are better through nurture

While others blame faults on nature